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Low-Temperature Expansion for a First Order Surface Transition

C. Buzano, A. Pelizzola

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9306012

Abstract

The question concerning the possibility of a first order surface transition in a semi--infinite Blume--Capel model is addressed by means of low temperature expansions. It is found that such a transition can exist, according to mean field and cluster variation approximations, and contrarily to renormalization group results.

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